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...the comedy half doesn't work without the intrigue half, and director Mayfield doesn't look like he would know intrigue if Martin Scorsese brought it to him wrapped in butcher paper with a bow on top. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

Rather than sprawling into far-reaching epic mode, this carefully contained script zooms in on one man's drive to protect his family against the backdrop of a civilization on the point of collapse. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

Hardwicke takes scripture that is at once deeply troubling ... and filled with profound hope, and renders it inert on both counts by playing things so safely that the result is almost irreverent. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

When I left the theater, I got in my car, turned off my perpetually running radio, and thought for a long time before I moved. It's been a while since a film has done that. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

This is a stunning example of a dumb concept that an ingenuous team of screenwriters, animators and voice actors turned squarely on its head. And there's scarcely a potty joke to be found. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

What's the point in warning of the perils of the information age by creating a scareless, formulaic film that fits so snugly into the thoughtless consumerism of the culture you're trying to criticize? - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

(Stettner) sets up a rule that the movie is about the psychological conditions of its characters, and what they can teach us about ourselves. He then switches games and asks us to believe the spook is its own excuse. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

Mann can't be faulted for his visual take on the grit and the glitter of high stakes cocaine rustling, but at 146 minutes he could have found more room for the psychological nuances... - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

Invariably, each summer vacation movie can be judged by the quality of its obligatory gag related to going to the bathroom in the wilderness or amid the complications of foreign plumbing. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT

No one expects intense character development from a tale aimed at the youngest of youngsters ... but parents who take their kids will grow bored with the lack of dimension. - Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)EDIT